Every part of the NYT story on the raid of the Chicago apartment building is crazy but this portion about the remnants left behind is so chilling www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

10 million social media impressions is…not a lot

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

Apparently the new way to hit on people is to stand too close to them at a bus stop and tell them to hold your hand getting on the bus???

Yes!! And lots of indie bookstores have sales today too.

If you, like me, try to limit your Amazon shopping, you can still benefit from Prime Day deals by shopping the sales that other, non-Amazon retailers put on to compete with APD. For example, I need some new sheets. I can buy them directly through the company website at a similar discount right now.

Hi! I’ll be chiming in tomorrow on the best Amazon Prime Big Deal Days sales on products the @wired.com Reviews team has tested and loved! Reminder: Be nice or I’ll tell your mom.

This will be coming to San Francisco and we should all be thinking about ways we can help our neighbors and make our feelings clear in a safe way.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

reject modernity (Sora), embrace tradition (JibJab)

This one made my head hurt, but like…you should read it.

“This is a colonial project, aimed at tech empire,” says Gil Duran, a former political consultant. “It sounds like colonization 2.0. When you go to another person's country and create your own country there, no matter your excuse, no matter your rationale.”

ICE has been arresting asylum-seekers in San Francisco for months now—targeting immigration court & sending people to far-flung detention centers. It's a constant stream of news. Readers often tune out. So here's a timeline recapping the most significant events so far.

I really, really, really hate this timeline

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Things I could not have foreseen just months ago: me in 2025, defending Jimmy Kimmel and Tylenol (Tylenol!!) like my life depends on it. Like, is this actually some sort of conspiracy to return us to 2019-era mainstream corporate values worship? This is breaking my brain.

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

We are just deeply unserious as a nation. I mean, come on.

I am NOT loving all these earthquakes we’re getting in the bay

The Trump administration is “setting up this world where every election cycle ... the content of broadcast news might drastically shift depending on which political party controls the censorship office,” FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social told @wired.com.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

We are so fucking cooked

Greg Gutfeld is performing late-night comedy the right way. by Ezra Klein

This is actually very funny because antifa is very much not an organization at all.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

Jimmy Kimmel triggers fascist free speech crackdown is a scattergories answer I never would have expected to come true.

I feel like I’m losing my mind

This is all he said?! This is why ABC (in response to threats from Trump's FCC) is taking Kimmel off the air?!

It seems that the only trans person known to be in the orbit of this horrific Kirk assassination saga expressed shock and horror, and immediately cooperated fully with law enforcement.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

We at Gazetteer SF (but mostly @joshuabote.com) are on Jollibee Watch: sf.gazetteer.co/jollibee-wat...

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

It's no coincidence that you couldn't escape the violent video yesterday. Social platforms like X, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram have scaled back their content moderation efforts for long to get us where we are today. Really essential reporting by @laurengoode.bsky.social

“It should also be noted that ‘transgender ideology’ is a term coined for and used in anti-trans political messaging. Reporters should be careful about using this term.” www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...

The Overton window on political violence shifted partly by his own hand. slate.trib.al/Zivq1AI

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

Today was hard. Tonight I am thinking about the terror inflicted on students in Evergreen, CO today. No child should have to experience this. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/10/e...

'Dawn in London' (2008) by Stefan Bleekrode behance.net/Stefanbleekrode

icarus flew too close to the sun but not me. i would have kept going, right into the sun

Some news: I’ve joined @wired.com as a senior manager for social media. Growing up in SF, WIRED was a revered institution for my generation of nerds, so this is *very* cool for me. And WIRED’s expanded political coverage is urgent and vital—it’s no small thing to get to be a part of that. Grateful.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Marked safe from an Aritzia fitting room.

I highly recommend folks go out and get a covid vaccine ASAP.

the rock is just a text that says “hey! what are u doing”

Coverage of ICE pepper-spraying our journalist @eddiekimx.bsky.social www.kqed.org/news/1205297... by @kqednews.kqed.org

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Great news, guys

“Even if significant foreign aid can reach Gaza in the coming months to reverse the tide, scientists say that the long-term health consequences will be felt for decades.”

Due to mass confusion, clarifying again: Tsunami Watch: Tsunami of indeterminate magnitude is possible; stand by. Tsunami Advisory: Tsunami is likely *but will probably be small.* Evacuations unlikely. Tsunami Warning: Tsunami is likely *and may be large.* Evacuations needed.

I can’t stop thinking about this article, and I think I may be haunted by it for a long time. Read it, if you can—especially if you’re American. Our southern border is a graveyard and our policies are pushing desperate migrants to horrific deaths all along it.